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Dive into this exclusive interview on Sway In The Morning as the remarkable Tasha Smith discusses her Netflix series "Survival of the Thickest," her inspiring career wins, and the lessons learned along the way. From her journey as an actress to becoming a celebrated director, Tasha shares powerful insights on self-love, relationships, and breaking boundaries in the entertainment industry. With heartfelt reflections and candid stories, she opens up about overcoming challenges, empowering others through her work, and embracing her own growth. Don’t miss her thoughts on directing, storytelling, and her passion for giving back through her craft. Tune in for laughter, wisdom, and exclusive moments from this unforgettable conversation. Subscribe now for more inspiring interviews and stay connected to Sway’s Universe for the latest in entertainment!
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CHAPTERS:
10:36 - Toxic vs Healthy Relationships
13:03 - Identifying Your True Desires
16:27 - Tasha Smith on Diversity and Representation
17:52 - Tasha Smith's Directing Journey
20:25 - Inspiration Behind Tasha Smith Acting Workshop
24:30 - Bo's Perspective from New Jersey
25:50 - Sh's Insights from Toronto
31:00 - Tasha Smith on “Survival of the Thickest”
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moves maybe she did have maybe I hat it here already stop it who
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said she didn't know yo you know
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what Lonnie light here who works for us he's U like NE assistant producer a he
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dug that clip up and he told me I said what clip we going to uh start the interview with he said I found something
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that was from 2014 oh my wow that was 11 years ago
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that is deep the prophet and we were just having a conversation off air that
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could be a a continuation to what those amazing words you just pour to break
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down God that just touched me I was like Wow but it's true and that had to be God
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speaking at that time because I mean that's who you are to us and even just
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the conversation that we were having prior to getting on about that
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communication being food to our spirits and our minds our hearts our purpose and
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you give us great communication he does that makes us think that makes us
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believe that makes us want to be better want to change want to elevate wow and
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that is important wow and you oh can can I keep talking you know
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I mean I mean I mean it's just such a blessing and when you think about people
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that we choose to engage with or choose not to engage with they are a part of
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the path that we'll end up on you know when we think about that saying how our footsteps are ordered by God right the
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right people can help us get on the right path the wrong people can cause a
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detour from our purpose right and then guess what we need to get back on track
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a navigation a GPS system and guess what the GPS system is G the power of the
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Holy Spirit you know what I'm saying like like sitting in your spirit and
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really hearing God and knowing how to get back on path so the thing I would
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suggest for all of us is to let go of the that may be continuing to put us on
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the wrong path be okay with letting things go be okay with letting things go
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be okay with letting people go what's on the other side of that oh like Mercy
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Grace favor purpose purpose like when you think about it because at the end of
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the day we really just want a purposeful life right we want to live intentionally
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we don't have a long time on this Earth so the time that we here we're here we want to make it count like this past
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year has been and last year and this year I mean I've seen friends go like
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I've had losses like from people that I did not expect to be gone and I have one
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particular friend that I lost and and it was an accident that that she was
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involved in and oh gosh I I feel bad even talking about this but it was such
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a story of um it was it was it was almost one of those like things where
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where she was talking about a person that she wanted to let go of but that
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person kept trying to hold on to her you know how some people like I don't know if I want to keep dealing with this person but then you continue to deal
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with them because people will sometime try to guilt you into having relationships with them and things like
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that but this person ended up being the reason for a very bad accident wow
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eventually you know what I mean mean and so you just never no you know what I mean like sometimes people will put us
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on the wrong path that could be detrimental to our lives and and and our
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purpose and things like that so yo she came in hit the ground running at the
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beach I know and we didn't even say her name yet so say the name before Ladi Gentlemen We Got The Magnificent Tasha
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Smith is in the build jersey stand up producer director actor
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philanthropist sister awesomeness awesomeness terrific human being so
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Tasha was so dope about what you're saying um one of my closest friends and I were having a conversation last night
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and we were talking about relationships and she said you know I'm a smart girl
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and I can't believe I stayed in a relationship so long I don't know how I
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would I allow this man to trick me for so long and I knew what was happening
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but I couldn't get out I couldn't let go I couldn't escape I if you ask me what's
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the definition of this I can tell you what's this I can tell you anything I was running my business at the same time
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and I tricked myself and I wouldn't let go finally he ended up letting go and
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leaving her do you think sometimes in relationships because I agree wholeheartedly with everything that
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you're saying I've experienced what you're saying but do you think sometimes relationships blur all of that I'm
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talking about intimate relationships with the you know your partner does it blur all of that because it's she
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basically admitted she had a problem with letting go she couldn't let go you know yeah you know I I feel like like we
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really have to get our minds and our Spirits strong right because the enemy will come in and Gaslight us all the
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time and a lot of those relationships become very manipulative mentally and
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emotionally right it's almost like that thing inside of us that's stuck in something in the past that we're looking
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for and a lot of women unfortunately we tend to live in the
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fantasy and not in the reality we live in the hope of what we want a situation
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to be instead of what it actually is so sometimes that fantasy that we're we've
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created in our minds will keep us in a situation or the Stockholm syndrome of
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all we protect what's abusive to us right and it becomes this sick cycle and
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honestly if we could break the chain and be okay with being alone and being
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patient and allowing ourselves to love ourselves then we could really embrace
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one that loves us because it's really a lack of love too when you think about it
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because when you don't really embrace yourself and don't really believe the best about yourself and believe that you
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deserve the best you deserve to be respected and honored and cherished when
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you don't have that idea about yourself in your heart and in your mind you will
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then Embrace what you think love is like I came up in a very like I mean abuse
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was something that I was was normal to me you know what I mean like I thought
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this was love like abuse was love you know what saying and you just get this
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warped idea of really what love is and then you don't even know how to embrace
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people that literally TR love you right but did you know you were in abuse like
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sometimes people be in in situations don't realize it's abuse a form of abuse a form of abuse yeah you know what's so
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deep is that I did know that okay I was getting my ass beat S I knew I was I
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mean it was not just emotional and mental but I also experienced phys phical abuse as a kid right and even the
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ones that's in the emotional abuse like your friend saying I know but what is
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the thing that's just keeping you in that thing I really feel it is you
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gaslighting yourself because what ends up happening you know you dealing with somebody you shouldn't be dealing with
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and then after it just kind of burst like the bubble just bust and then you might want to cry out to God and be like
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God why you do this to me God did not do that to you you allowed yourself to stay
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in that situation because you thought you could change it and that's another thing with us women we think we going to
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change a [ __ ] right I mean you ain't changing nobody that don't want to be
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changed but do you understand what I'm saying 2% you ain't changing nobody
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that's your fantasy that is not his reality that's not his reality you ain't
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going to change a [ __ ] change a [ __ ] that don't want to be changed let me tell you something
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everybody do exactly what they want to do and if you keep allowing them to do it to you trust me they gonna do it cuz
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if I came up and said hey let me give you $200 you going to not take it I was literally negotiating something with
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somebody I said you could either take a th000 or 1500 he said I want the 1500 of course you going to always want the 1500
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of course just like brothers look if you allow them to keep dealing with you you
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know while they're abusing you you think they not going to keep taking it they going keep taking ain't nobody turning
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down no good that is okay with being abused and sometimes they think that is
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better when it's abused [ __ ] excuse my mouth no we like it keep it keep it know
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sometime folk think abuse [ __ ] is good [ __ ] how many times people say I'm in a
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toxic relationship but I love it I it I love it toxic they want thatx
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that toxic that toxic pinga right that toxic pinga I mean pinga is penis we
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don't want toxic pinga that's girl girls the girls the girls do get out I can't
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take it y That's him that's him oh my God this speaking for our you want
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that but people do they be like I'm going to start an argument with it cuz that it's going to be real
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good hey the makeup sex they look forward to that but you got it big the
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the bigger the argument the better the sex I'm telling you that's what Smith is here man come on building
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in the building Tracy get in there Tracy Tracy's in New York by the
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[Music] way you look you can turn back to the camera Tasha okay yeah she came in
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looking Super Fly you already know Tasha's Tasha's stunning always stunning
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she in her sister cedra and this conversation is so funny because it's making me think that we're like in the middle of a scene for Why Did I Get
11:01
Married like cuz you already know that's Marcus and Angela you already know
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that's Marcus and Angela oh my God tell Tyler Perry to hurry up and get it together let's go
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right you ready you ready for the next ready come on we've been ready okay good
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okay go ahead Trac on this subject Tasha because I'm telling you huie you are a
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life coach as well and you are able to give such fantastic wisdom around all of
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these relationships on the flip side because yes there are many of us who
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have had a craving for the thrill of a toxic relationship right but then there
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are times where being in a healthy relationship where you feel cherished for some folks also feels boring what do
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you say to those that are like yo I I can't live without the drama is
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something is a happy healthy relationship also a happy healthy boring
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relationship see I just I feel like that reflects the being that that person is
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like when you think about it like if drama and toxicity is what it is that
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they want that's an internal thing when you really think about it if that's like an ingredient that you feel you need to
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have in order to live like a fulfilled life that's an internal thing with you you know what I'm saying and when you
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think about though the wrong ingredient could [ __ ] up a good meal do you follow what I mean like think about it like
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theong you know what I mean bar right there like I swear like I cuz I love to cook right and it's all about the
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seasoning and rosemary don't go in everything facts
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okay we don't need it in the mac and cheese homie you know what I'm saying that's like putting some Rosemary and
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some mac and cheese you be like wait a minute y'all just [ __ ] up this meal yeah yeah it didn't need the Rosemary
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exactly exactly so what do you like to eat like really like what do you really
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want and if you really crave happiness like if that is an internal
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thing that you just desire deeply you're going to make different decisions on the
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kind of people that you engage with as far as dating and things like that it's
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you become I remember somebody asked me about this dude I was messing with was like yo you talk to I said I'm allergic
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to that [ __ ] like like literally allergic he's a
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virus like imagine when you allergic you start sneezing and cing and choking like cuz some allergies could cause asthma
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like literally some things you're allergic to can literally stop you from breathing and have an attack some things
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I'm allergic to I don't want no [ __ ] that's the ingredient you got to stay
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away from period the [ __ ] but it can't stop in relationships like this has to be across
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the board this has to be with professional relationships professionalism oh you can talk that
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talk it got to be with friendships platonic relationship platonic relationships your
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homies family members oh yeah that yeah that's true it got to be people from
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your past your old school friends all that work environment work environment
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work EnV you it can't stop at relationships right let no and it and
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it's great to come to that realization and we we we're in the second half I always say we I'm in the second half of
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life right when I was in the first half I co I dealt with it I felt I had to cope with it you had to I felt like you
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had to but when I got to the second half that feeling was eradicated immediately
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I understood that I never had to cope with it right and you reach that point in life where that Revelation hits you
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you don't want to live by nothing else and you get a smaller and smaller tolerance for the [ __ ] no for the
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[ __ ] you do and you realize when you get into that second half that you
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literally don't have to do nothing you don't want to do can't nobody because
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make you do anything you don't want to do you know when we were younger it was almost like fear just kind of like was
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would consume you like a lot of times we would engage in things out of fear like
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I feel I I fear you know like I have to deal with this person and I have to take
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their [ __ ] out of fear of what they could do to you or you know what I'm saying what they could say about you but
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once you get to a certain age I don't care what anybody thinks about me what
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anybody got to say about me I am a 54 year old woman that has lived such a
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serious life I've overcome obstacles that most people would not have been able to live through let me tell you
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something what I don't want to deal with sway can kiss my ass Tasha Smith we
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going to open up the phone lines 888 742 3345 you kiss my
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ass4 five let's go Tor Jersey let's go swe
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on the west coast Why Did I Get Married Why Did I Get Married to For Better or Worse yep
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the corner Empire daddy's little girls addicted Boston Common oh my God damn I
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go way back way back that was 1996 we didn't see people like us on those shows back then right we did not
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which is crazy and those two guys Max mutchnik and David Co
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from Boston comment I I'm actually developing a show with right now that we we co-wrote together and that was like
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over 30 years of a relationship that we've had isn't that crazy and I was I
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named my production company black girl because I was the only black girl usually in Productions wow okay like I
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was always the black girl okay you were that person right how are things different now I mean we we see more of
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us now we see more shows that represent us that represent our culture it's not just one-sided through one lens but it's
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it's uh various lens and and of of our stories and we have so many incredible
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writers black writers and directors and producers and that's just representing a
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vast a big large you know part of our culture and that is really exciting
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that's really exciting did you always know you wanted to step behind the camera because we met you in front of
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the camera camera right but now every time I turn on a show that I like directed Tasha Smith I see come on I see
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your nameing up and I and I think Harlem oh my gosh Harlem shout out to Tracy
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Oliver and everybody amazing job God mayor of Kingstown which was so
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fun being math being able to do that and as a black woman to be able to set the
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tone of that series the pilot andu the first Seas with I
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mean it was really a blessing you know it was a dream that I had like I had a
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dream that I wanted to direct but to be honest I was afraid I I I didn't think I
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would be able to do it I had a lot of insecurity you know about that impostor
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syndrome impostor syndrome but why you didn't believe you would be able to do it you had been in the business for so
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long you know I think it was probably because of me having a lack of of
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Education in the traditional way as far as directing like I didn't go to film
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school I felt like there were some technical things I didn't understand you know I really you know during the time
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of the dream I didn't really have any real mentors that that really helped me
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until later on like Lee Daniels le mckel guy named Billy wood of like I ended up
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getting people that really encouraged me you know what I'm saying and once I find
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I went to a a a summer program at USC I ended up directing my first short film
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called boxon that I wrote 2015 baby which was great right yeah and that gave
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me confidence and also teaching acting like I would teach acting and and you
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know we were I I'm basically directing scenes setting up scenes I knew how to communicate with actors you know when
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directors would come I would work with some directors to help them you know like break down the characters and
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things like that and I think teaching acting gave me confidence in my
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storytelling I knew I could communicate with the actor to tell the story you
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know and then I got stronger with the visuals of it all and now I'm I'm obsessed yeah like like love it I love
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it I love and I love that you get back with tsaw right your Workshop program right that what inspired that to be able
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to communicate with folks how to do the best job yes because I I thought that teaching acting was me just giving to
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others I didn't realize that they were also giving to me every opportunity I
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got to teach and to block a scene and to set up a scene I was literally
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cultivating my director on the inside of me so when I go to set I'm not afraid to
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tell the story and communicate with the actor I because I have been training
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doing that for 20 years as a teacher you know a lot of people didn't know that
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that I was teaching like I remember a long time ago I was up for a
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movie and and I hate to say this but it's true but I was meeting with an
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actor and I was so excited to meet with this actor and you know the movie that
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it never happened but they the The Producers wanted me to meet with this actor and this actor was like well what
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makes you think you could direct this the actor said this yes a black man like what makes you think you could do this I
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mean you ain't even been in nothing that good really you know L like literally
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rush I'm not even playing like it was it was devastating and I was like I had to
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brush that [ __ ] off so fast so fast and
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even when I started directing I went straight to the opposite of what people
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knew about me because people had seen me working with TP so much right and they
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thought that that's that's Tyler Perry you know who his friend Perry you know
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TP you know you and have to know him personally he's been on the show you know I've been on you know right right
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but um or I should say Mr Perry Mr Perry Mr Perry but you know people had had
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seen me at you know in that space for such a for a minute you know with Daddy's Little Girls Why Did I Get
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Married Why Did I Get Married to all of that but there was still so much more in me and so many other stories to tell and
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I said well when I start directing I'm going to go I'm going to do the opposite of what people think they know about me
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and that's why it was so drama heavy crime Thriller things like that because
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I just needed to explore a different part of my instrument and for people to see a different side of me you do you do
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excellent work I mean to cut you but just the result of all the things I'm loving hearing this back story to how
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you came to directing CU every time I watched you direct I always saw it at in
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the credits like after I watched some amazing episodes I like what Dasha you
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know and so you do excellent work give her a round of applause for that absolutely continue I apologize I know I
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mean I just love it and I'm and I'm grateful for the opportunity you know I felt like I I was in a space
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you know in the early part of my directing career where I had to prove myself I felt I felt like I did not but
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I felt like I had to prove myself to people you know people were like well she's just an acting teacher and she's
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just an actress and she's only done these kind of movies and you know they felt like they had my number but they
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didn't understand the passion in me they didn't understand that while I had been teaching for 20 years as all I was doing
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was really directing scenes you know blocking scenes setting up scenes really
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cultivating I felt like I was hidden you know but that's how God does it it's a
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process to the success proc and look at it now and that process is a part of the success all right Tasha Smith is here we
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we going to keep you going we supposed to have you for 20 30 minutes but you ain't got nowhere to go do you not not
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right there not at the moment okay cool Bo is on the line from New Jersey what's happening what's happening
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what's happening hey Bo hey what you got to say to Tasha man oh man you're inspiration
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and you fine as hell yo bo I just left the room and I and I told told everybody in the other
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room I had to leave cuz Tasha keep staring in my eyes I can't take it he
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didn't tell me Tas cuz I would have told on him immediately I would have been like Tasha sway got crush on yo I'm
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like I love I love you too every time your sister and you look me in my eye
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I'm like oh geez man but no but absolutely Bo go ahead man what what would you like to say to her um I just
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want to thank you your inspiration um uh that you know that narcissistic uh thing
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you know I'm saying I've was going through it um you made my day and you still and you fine as hell oh that's
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what he really C I appreciate it I'd rather be an inspiration thank you you
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know just no listen listen you're both you're both more of an inspiration well I don't know thank
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you go to work Bo go get a Bo go get that check make that
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money morning uh let's go to uh sh is in Toronto Char welcome to the
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show hi everyone hope you're doing well yes yes excellent say hi to Tasha
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SMI congratulations T Tasha on all your success thank you sis I appreciate
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it and you're fine as hell just
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kidding sh's into things I love you for that sh go ahead I actually called I actually
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called about two years ago when you guys were talking about people who have done you wrong and I tried to tell my story I
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left a very bad abusive uh domestic abuse situation um that I was in for about 15 years um wow I had been
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together with someone from college we got I got together with him since I was 19 years old um it was an extremely
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toxic relationship but again there was no education on you know healthy relationships and so I thought abuse was
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normal um so I got into this toxic relationship with this with this jerk for a long time um I'm actually still in
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court it's been two years and I'm still fighting for everything but you know I I
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think there's a there's an end there's an end somewhere um but I just want to thank you for Shining Light on this you
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know just the topics of just what's been normalized um especially in in in cultures with people of color I'm guye
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and I think it's just been very normalized in our culture you know the abuse and what to take from men and it's
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just like I think nowadays you know women are just having more of an education on you know value and just you
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know to actually treat yourself some kind of worth and just not take that kind of behavior anymore um it took me a
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really long time to break out of that go ahead how are you how are you
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doing now um it's it's extremely difficult it's extremely difficult because uh you
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know it seems the system favor men like him you know he makes a lot of money
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he's a you know corporate image kind of you know type person and it's just it's
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being favored um and it it's really like it doesn't even matter what these kind of people do anymore it's just it's kind
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of praise to be a narcissist these days it's really disgusting um but at least more women are are getting educated on
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you know what that behavior looks like and you know what gaslighting is what a trauma bond is what all of that is and
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it's it's just it's making it a lot I see a lot of people getting divorced these days and and I think that that's a
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good thing that people are actually you know stepping up for what they believe in and you know just not taking that
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especially divorce is shamed in so many cultures even with my family like my parents are still not supportive of my
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divorce knowing that this man has put my hands on me has put my put hands on my children and it's still like I had to
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beg them to take wedding pictures off the wall I had to you know like just things like that well sh I'm so sorry
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that you had to go through that but I'm so excited for you and your future that
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you got out of it and so I just want to encourage you to not give up on love and
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to dream as big as you can and to try if you can to replace some of those
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thoughts with just what it is that you really desire for your life there's a
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scripture that says the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal But Mighty through God to the pulling down of
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strongholds and casting down imaginations so if you can try because
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sometimes that's where the battle is in your mind how you think how you think of yourself and we have to reshape how we
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see ourselves how we see life so try to dream about and visualize about what you
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want your life to be those thoughts will probably bring you Joy try not to sit
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and meditate on the past because when you meditate on that that's where you become like Frozen and stuck and keep
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embracing the things that have happen instead of trying to embrace what's in front of you so I just say God bless you
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I encourage you have faith in God you know I pray Joy over your life sis I'll
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be cussing and preaching at the same time we under construction that's God know my
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heart but sis new production company alert right God bless you sis but
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seriously dream about how you want your life to be from this point on that
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situation in the past is going to work itself out it's going to be a process in
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working it out embrace the process but look forward to the future amen there
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you go sh thank you for sharing your life with us sh you caugh that obedience sh God bless you okay and and call us
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with the joy too sh The Joy report all right we want the joy report okay thank
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you you a super citizen
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absolutely that's hilarious thank you um we have to talk about the new show
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survival of the thickest yes the new season stting March 27 right Netflix yes
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Michelle BH shout out to Michelle Michelle was awesome listen let's start with the
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title survival of the thickest well who came up like tell that's her that was based on Michelle's book okay right
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survival of the thicket and you know so she she wrote WR a book about her life
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and you know just being a sister that was able to get that book turned into a series was a blessing I met Michelle
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when I was doing a First Wives Club with my sister Jill Scott right cuz that was
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like a blessing for Jill and I because you know we hadn't worked together since uh we did Why did I get married so I was
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really looking forward to us doing that and Michelle and I had a brief moment you know on the set and that's how that
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came about and I just I wanted to support her you know what I mean like you know being a sister that was
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producing a show created a show so I came in there on that first season with her really just wanting to have her back
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okay and support her as a black woman and then the show came back you know I
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ended up coming back as a series regular they asked me to direct some episodes you know so and that was like my first
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time like really directing myself know what I mean and um and it's funny how do you do that I mean
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preparation preparation like literally everything is about preparation because it was
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probably two of my biggest episodes right that I'm directing myself in which
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was just absolutely insane but it was also so much fun and you know I get to I
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play a queer woman I I I directed Harlem right and I was able to uh see get uh
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have Jerry play my love interest from Harlem and it was so cool Michelle doesn't even know this but I'mma tell
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this first here on S when Jerry was up for for uh survival
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of the thickest I was like well she just kind of played this part on har and I directed her and Gil beam in that
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beautiful episode did you see that on that sofa girl when legs came over I live for her and
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do you know I believed everything about that I believe they hung out after let me just tell you something when I
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directed them I was I knew that the that season two was coming up and what my
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work would be in season two and I'm watching them work together and I was like please I really want someone like
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one of them to play my love interest for season two and then when Jerry came up
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for it I wasn't sure I was like Michelle do you think that you know that it's right for her to come from Harlem to
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this show and she's like look hey I'm I think she's perfect it's a different network a different kind of show I said
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okay Bet Jerry calls me I say Jerry let's get together girl Jerry and I met
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for hours and we rehearsed before her her screen test so we
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literally rehearsed and worked together I said girl let's make some chemistry
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that cannot be Deni and then when she came in for the audition her and I
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looking like yeah girl let's go they couldn't deny it and and she
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ended up getting the part but what was so funny you know I'm not a queer woman
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have a lot of queer women in my life and so I don't know what what female female
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sex is like right okay I don't know right TR you want
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to well let me tell y'all what was the funniest thing was when me and Jerry had
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a love scene right and they said okay you got to get on top of her and y'all start making love right know so I was
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like I literally opened my legs right to get on top and I was like how y'all do
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it like this I was like this don't how did how does this work how do we have
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sex like thisha get out I'm not playing and so Jerry was
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like that's why I'm glad that I had a strong powerful queer woman that taught
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me how to be a queer woman she said oh no no no no no baby girl we got to open the leg we going to get the scissor it's
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like like you know where y'all like that you know the vagin had to kind of come
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together and get some yo I was like oh this is how you get off I said damn it I
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didn't know sis I was like could you imagine I was so and the director didn't even know what to do I was like and but
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Jerry had to literally set up the scene and work that out so it was it turned
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out all right she's dope listen she is the most beautiful vibrant beautiful
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woman yeah I just love her I love jry Johnson I love her we can't tell enough
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stories I know right about black women though like you know because know we haven't seen enough yes right so over
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the years and only recently have we truly been seeing more story lines
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Perry mean so this is great to hear and this is what makes this series so great right
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yes it's so fun it's said this season is so fun you'll see Mavis going through
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just finding her love like getting back into love she is going to take us on a beautiful ride tone Bell is absolutely
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fantastic you're going to see his character going through so much stuff oh my gosh and Marley is just in full power
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my character I mean love deciding this is what she wants relationship wise
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getting to explore that relationship with Jerry it is such a fun show it's rooted it's real we had all these
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incredible female directors one being myself you know there was Amy anobi and
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timby Banks and Kim oh my God I mean it's just such a vibrant group of women
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and so it's a blessing and I'm excited for the second season of survival of of
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the thick is March 27th on Netflix Netflix baby yo Tasha you are having
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sent thank you bro and we can't get enough of you okay and I know you just
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your sister cedra and you just celebrated a birthday yes and um you know how I found out I was watching taji
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um Instagram oh my god do you cra gig I'm blaming cindra I apologize to anyone
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we forgot to invite okay because it was so last minute s PR she woke up on a
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Monday or something and was like let's have a birthday thing on Friday DJ kissing MOS come on we GNA go down to
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the addition and this and that and I said girl who we going to invite well what do people don't come I'm always afraid to have a birthday party why you
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think people because I be thinking people ain't GNA show up so I I do I like I literally I run from birthdays
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like that birthday is usually at my BFF author's house and it's usually me Arthur Angela bass Jesse Williams we
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eating crab hey and that's it like we literally eating CRA every year I either want crust asan or to make some crab at
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home right but crustation ain't no so good Beverly Hills yes that's my
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favorite we should go there one day okay but cidra last minute planned this
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birthday with Ernest dokes my amazing publicist and it was and and DJ kiss in
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MOS and it just and legendary Dam Man legend honest know legendary Damon but
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and it was just so much fun I swear we danced like it was the 90s y'all I mean
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the guy was literally putting us out the club he was like everybody got to go home the lights are up the music stop
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everybody leave leave leave we was like we don't want to leave so we went to a after hours we didn't get in girl you
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know that's some East Coast stuff we went after hours we didn't get into like 5 6 o' I said this remind me back in
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Jersey them cocaine days oh my Tasha get out
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cocaine and Jersey be synonymous shut up shut up I was like this is like 90
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something you know I feel like I'm in the ' 90s right now okay I love how many
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days it take you to recover yo I'm still recovering yo get out do you hear my
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voice I'm like I am still recovering I mean we have fun you have fun though that's have fun we had so much fun thank
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you J bet Jessica Bes n's wife sang Happy Birthday to us oh my God such a
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beautiful voice I mean all our friends and family it's just it was so good
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Jessica so cool Jess sool I mean like Style no she f f no no no got the fit
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got the got the swag send my love to her next yes and just and N we just sending
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you a little shout out y'all they're so beautiful beautiful people Tasha you amazing thank you for blessing us with
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your presence I love you too I love you too okay that's Tasha
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Smith March 27 Netflix season 2 make sure you watch it and we want to thank
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y'all for tuning in it's our first week in La ain't even been a week a week I'm
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glad y' here I'm start bring I might bring y'all some food here one day cuz you know i' be cooking I might just drop
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off a little PL bring the crew too we all B okay we all from the same era yes
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